Murray crashes out of US Open after heavy defeat to Dimitrov
In the twelfth assembly between two veterans of the game, and 7 years after their final one, nineteenth seed Dimitrov registered solely his fourth win over the Scot.
Murray wilted contained in the Arthur Ashe Stadium, the courtroom upon which he received his first Grand Slam title in 2012, as he slipped to a 6-3 6-4 6-1 defeat.
A ding-dong of a primary set, together with two brutal 15-minute video games, was poised at 3-3 with virtually an hour performed and the match was shaping as much as be one other Murray marathon.
Murray had misplaced eight factors in a row to slide behind however hit again after an astonishing get from a 36-year-old with a metallic hip, retrieving a web twine by deftly angling the ball away from Dimitrov. He continued his run previous the online submit and into Dimitrov’s facet of the courtroom, the place the Bulgarian clapped his opponent earlier than each tapped rackets.
That was the place the niceties ended, although, and Murray’s hopes shortly went south. He got here up with a stunning service recreation, two double-faults and two unforced errors gifting Dimitrov the set and the momentum.
Murray was damaged once more initially of the second and his shoulders slumped even additional when his solitary probability to interrupt again drifted huge.
The fixed chuntering to his group was getting much less and fewer cordial and, at 4-1 down within the third, he gestured to them that the match was over as a contest.
The former world primary was proved to be proper two video games later as one other try to problem within the later rounds of a Grand Slam fell effectively brief.